'Montgomery Advertiser' executive editor Wanda Lloyd to retire

1:35 AM,
Nov. 21, 2012

Wanda Lloyd has been executive editor of the 'Montgomery Advertiser' since 2004.

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Wanda Lloyd, executive editor at the Montgomery Advertiser since 2004, announced Tuesday that she will retire early next year.

Lloyd has worked as an editor with Gannett, the Advertiser's parent company, since 1986, except for a period of 3˝ years immediately before coming to Montgomery when she was founding executive director of a journalism education program at Vanderbilt University.

"Wanda Lloyd has had a big impact on the direction of this newspaper for more than eight years at a time when the newspaper industry has faced many challenges with the economy and the transition to audience ...